On 4/29/11 12:25 PM, Johan Hattne wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 8
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Following a report about a year ago, the determination of the
> executable status used by bash's built-in test command was changed.
> The original issue was that the access(2) family of functions may
> indicate success for X_OK, even if the file does not actually have
> any execute permission bits set. This is allowed by the
> specification for historical reasons, even though discouraged for new
> implementations
>
> (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/faccessat.html).
> On FreeBSD which provides faccessat(2) as well as eaccass(2), this
> causes test -x to report false positives.
Thanks for the update.
Chet
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